When Teyana Taylor dropped her The Cassette Tape: 1994 mixtape last fall, it was implied in its rollout and its content that it was all about creating a throwback feel. The G.O.O.D. Music rapper-songbird took listeners back to the ’90s on the tape, gaining whatever ground her VII debut album may have left behind.

Having just released a music video for “Touch Me” – one within which Taylor not only paid homage to music video dance breakdowns of the past, but also proudly showed off her post-baby body – Taylor took to YouTube at midnight to release visuals for another track off The Cassette Tape, the “Poison”-sampling “Undercover.”

Though “Undercover” as a song is about creeping with an ex, its music video isn’t so trifling. Instead, the Elijah Steen-directed visuals mix the past and the present. Spandex bodysuits are in, Taylor struts around in cheetah print and a khaki uniform that would make Aaliyah proud, and throwback team jackets and Cross Colours clothing make an appearance. To say nothing of the plenty of New Jack Swing-inspired dances that Teyana and her crew break out at the club they crash.

Teyana Taylor’s The Cassette Tape: 1994 mixtape, on which “Undercover” appears, is available now.

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